Looking Forward to ...

Well, Dear Reader, this will probably be my last post until January 3rd or 4th as I have a very busy few days of jollillities coming up. So, first of all, thank you for your company during 2010, for visiting Badsville, for putting up with me, for your comments and your e-mails, for the laughs and insights and friendship. And to those of you who humoured me with a story for the Ramones Challenge, a big Gabba-Gabba-Hey. I hope to see many of you during 2011 in person, so that I can give you a hug.

My best of 2010 post will have to wait until the new year, but in the meantime, I shall sign off for 2010 with a list of the Scottish crime fiction coming out in 2011. I've also included the paperback version where the hardback came out in 2010. If I've missed anyone out, I'm sorry! And please let me know.

Where I've linked to Amazon, it's only because I couldn't find a synopsis anywhere else easily.

Lots and lots of lovely stuff to look forward to:

DECEMBER 2010
Douglas Lindsay - 21 YEARS ON THE BACK OF DIXIE KLONDYKE'S SPANISH GUITAR
Peter Turnbull - DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Ray Banks - WOLF TICKETS (serialised in three editions of Needle Mag)

JANUARY
Alanna Knight - THE SEAL KING MURDERS
Stuart MacBride - DARK BLOOD
Stuart MacBride - SHATTER THE BONES

FEBRUARY
Alex Gray - SLEEP LIKE THE DEAD
Charles Cumming - THE TRINITY SIX
Kate Atkinson - STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG
M C Beaton - DEATH OF A CHIMNEY SWEEP
Peter May - THE BLACKHOUSE
Tony Black - TRUTH LIES BLEEDING
Val McDermid - TRICK OF THE DARK

MARCH
Alexander McCall Smith - THE SATURDAY BIG TENT WEDDING PARTY
Aline Templeton - CRADLE TO GRAVE
Doug Johnstone - SMOKEHEADS
Paul Johnston - THE NAMELESS DEAD
Peter May - BLOWBACK
Philip Kerr - FIELD GREY
Quintin Jardine - THE LONER

APRIL
Aly Monroe - LONDON BLACKLIGHT
Catriona McPherson - DANDY GILVER AND AN UNSUITABLE DAY FOR A MURDER
Chris Ewan - THE GOOD THIEF'S GUIDE TO VENICE
Gerald Hammond - SNITCH
Gillian Galbraith - NO SORROW TO DIE
Gillian Philip - THE OPPOSITE OF AMBER
G J Moffat - BLINDSIDE
Ray Banks - CALIFORNIA

MAY
Alexander McCall Smith - A CONSPIRACY OF FRIENDS
Denise Mina - THE END OF THE WASP SEASON
Helen Fitzgerald - HOT FLUSH (but you can already get it as an audiobook)
Ken McClure - DUST TO DUST
Ken McClure - LOST CAUSES
Pat McIntosh - A PIG OF COLD POISON
Shirley McKay - TIME AND TIDE

JUNE
Christopher Brookmyre - WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED
Craig Robertson - SNAPSHOT
Karen Campbell - PROOF OF LIFE
Morag Joss - AMONG THE MISSING
Pat McIntosh - THE COUNTERFEIT MADAM
Quintin Jardine - GRIEVOUS ANGEL

JULY
Craig Russell - THE DEEP DARK SLEEP
Helen Fitzgerald - THE DONOR
Julie Corbin - WHERE THE TRUTH LIES
M C Beaton - DEATH OF A GREEDY WOMAN

AUGUST
Lin Anderson - PICTURE HER DEAD
Sean Black - GRIDLOCK
Shona Maclean - CRUCIBLE OF SECETS

SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER

Errrr...nothing, apparently.

And some non-Scottish books I am really looking forward to in 2011:
Charlie Williams - ONE DEAD HEN - August
Steve Mosby - BLACK FLOWERS - April
Joe Lansdale - HYENAS in January and DEVIL RED in March
Donald Ray Pollock - THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME - July
Christa Faust - CHOKE HOLD - October
Megan Abbott - THE END OF EVERYTHING - July
Heath Lowrance - THE BASTARD HAND - March
Bill Fitzhugh - THE EXTERMINATORS - April
Kevin Wignall - BLOOD (first in his Mercian Trilogy for YA readers) - Autumn

I'm sure I shall think of plenty more as soon as I've pressed send.

And, on the' yes please could I have some' front, my wishes for 2011 are new books from Allan Guthrie, Eddie Muller, Daniel Woodrell, Scott Phillips, Declan Burke, Reed Farrel Coleman, Mark Haskell Smith, Ken Bruen, Anthony Neil Smith and a non-YA book from Kevin Wignall. It's not much to ask for is it?

So, what books are you looking forward to (Scottish or otherwise), and which authors do you wish would have something new out in 2011.

Lots of love, and a wonderful new year to everyone. May 2011 bring you everything you wish for yourselves, and much more besides.

xxx